Middleware support for pervasive context-aware systems relieves context-aware applications from dealing with the complexity of context-specific operations such as context acquisit...
Kamran Sheikh, Maarten Wegdam, Marten van Sinderen
Abstract Sensor devices produce data that are unreliable, low-level, and seldom able to be used directly by applications. In this paper, we propose Metaphysical Data Independence (...
Shawn R. Jeffery, Michael J. Franklin, Minos N. Ga...
Distributed simulation applications often rely on middleware to provide services to support their execution over distributed computing environments. Such middleware spans many lev...
Thom McLean, Richard M. Fujimoto, J. Brad Fitzgibb...
Over the last thirty years, the MIL-STD 1553B data bus has been used in many embedded systems, like aircrafts, ships, missiles and satellites. However, the increasing number and c...
Ahlem Mifdaoui, Fabrice Frances, Christian Fraboul
Peer-to-peer, or simply P2P, systems have recently emerged as a popular paradigm for building distributed applications. One key aspect of the P2P system design is the mechanism us...